Landlords are straight up lying in their public comments. This is your "working class mom and pop landlord" - a guy with 30 years as a high-level mortgage banker, crying poverty because he only owns three BUILDINGS.

Starting tk think there might be a pattern to these anti-tenant public comments

Lol this one is a real eatate lawyer who used to work for the city attorney's office.

Ah yes, a "small business such as ours," the portfolio valued at $2b

More landlord-public comment nonsense. Here's a form letter submitted by dozens of people describing how tenter protections would hurt landlords. This one is signed by Susan Brickman, whose firm Universe Holdings has over 50 multi-family properties in its portfolio.

This one is from Alfred Somekh, whose firm Gehr Development brags about investing in over $1b in properties. He is also a former board member and PAC head for the California Apartments Association.

Couldn't find much on Robert Jabour, but he submitted a letter and owns at least one building with 26 units.

Also not sure what Chris Weerts owns l, but he's run his own real eatate company for 20 years and owns apartments, so I don't think he's the kind of "working class mom and pop landlord" that city council thinks they're protecting.

Xandro Mayers was tough to find, but he's wealthy enough that his daughter had a New York Times wedding announcement, which describes her dad's long career ending as a VP at a major bank.

David Jankowski is a Principal at Revere Investments, which owns all of the blue-marked properties on this map, and previously sold the red-marked ones. This is not a small scale operation.

Here's Noah Damsky, who has "overseen over $17 billion in portfolios," a normal activity for a "working class mom and pop landlord."

The people submitting public comment on the side of landlords are some of our most empowered local residents. Millionaires and billion dollar companies are pretending to speak for small property owners in order to mask their actual interest, forever jacking up rents.

Landlords like these are intimidating tenants and attempting evictions mid-pandemic. A form letter saying they're "helping renters" is unverifiable and self-flattering, and there is no reason to believe it's true or applied fairly.

City Council is meeting on these issues today. Let's make sure the public comment period represents renters, and not rich/empowered property owners. Here's a great guide to today's meeting put together by @theglowingstars https://ktownforall.org/2020/04/21/guide-to-the-april-22-la-city-council-meeting/